Buy Sustainable Quick Wins and Sustainable ICT Procurement

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Buy Sustainable Quick Winsand Sustainable ICT
Procurement
Dr Kay Williams Nottingham Trent July 2009
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Sustainable Consumption and Production

• On 16 July 2008 the European Commission presented
  a series of proposals on sustainable consumption
  and production - the SCP Action Plan and
  Sustainable Industrial Policy (SIP)
• Its aim - to contribute to improving the
  environmental performance of products and
  increase the demand for more sustainable goods
  and production technologies.
• The proposals seek to encourage EU industry to
  seek opportunities to innovate
• http//ec.europa.eu/environment/eussd/escp_en.htm

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What are the components of SCP and SIP?

• The building blocks of the European Union's
  policy include
• Integrated Product Policy (IPP)
• Thematic Strategy on the Sustainable Use of
  Natural Resources
• Thematic Strategy on Waste Prevention and
  Recycling
• Eco- management and Audit Scheme (EMAS)
• Ecolabel Scheme
• Environmental
• Environmental Technologies Action Plan (ETAP)
• Green Public Procurement
• Ecodesign of Energy using Products Directive
  (EuP)
• European Compliance Assistance Programme
  Environment SMEs

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What are greener goods?
Greener goods are defined on a life-cycle basis,
GPP will affect the whole supply chain stimulate
green standards in private procurement
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What are the GPP priority sectors?

• 1. Construction (covering raw materials, such as
  wood, aluminium, steel, concrete, glass as well
  as construction products and operational and
  end-of-life aspects of buildings, maintenance
  services, on-site performance of works contracts)
• 2. Food and catering services
• 3. Transport and transport services
• 4. Energy (including electricity, heating and
  cooling coming from renewable energy sources)
• 5. Office machinery and computers
• 6. Clothing, uniforms and other textiles
• 7. Paper and printing services
• 8. Furniture
• 9. Cleaning products and services
• 10. Equipment used in the health sector

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GPP - Political targets

• The Commission proposes that, by 2010, 50 of
  all tendering procedures should be green, where
  "green" means "compliant with endorsed common
  core GPP criteria.
• The percentage would be expressed in both number
  and value of green contracts as compared to the
  overall number and value of contracts concluded
  in the sectors for which common core GPP
  criteria have been identified.

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What are Quick Wins?

• Buy Sustainable Quick Wins are a set of
  sustainable specifications for a range of
  commonly-purchased products, including IT
  equipment, white goods, paper, etc.
• They consist of both a set of mandatory minimum
  standards and best practice specifications.
• The minimum standards are mandatory for central
  government and it agencies but the best practice
  specifications are voluntary and highlight the
  best in class products in certain areas.
• Best practice specification signal the direction
  of travel for future product standards
• Anyone can use these specifications during
  procurement

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Buy Sustainable Quick Wins
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ICT Criteria Coverage

• Computing Products
• Desktop PCs
• Laptop PCs
• Workstation PCs
• Monitors

• Imaging Products
• Laser Printers
• Laser MFDs
• Inkjet Printers
• Inkjet MFDs
• Scanners

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ICT Best Practice Criteria

• Environmental Lifecycle Impact Categories
• Energy consumption
• Disassembly/recycling
• Product lifetime
• Material composition
• Emissions
• Packaging and documentation characteristics
• Basic Cost Benefit Analysis

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Cost Benefit Analysis and market capacity
evaluation

• for ICT (computer products) central government
  expenditure would increase by around 2.5 over a
  ten year period (approximately 2.8 for the wider
  public sector). Although across the whole life
  of the product, due to increased life span and/or
  re-sale value the cost increase of adopting these
  specifications may be significantly lower which
  could result in an overall benefit
• for ICT (imaging products) expenditure would
  decrease by around 4 over a ten year period for
  both central government and the wider public
  sector.

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Where did the criteria come from?

• These have been drawn from existing standards
  IEEE 1680 which underpins EPEAT scheme and ECMA
  370/IT ECO Declarations.
• Database of environmental product data for each
  product type
• Environmental performance compared against
  criteria in ECMA-370 and EPEAT (Computing
  products only)
• Environmental Technical Specifications and Award
  Criteria developed in line with market
  performance
• Comparison against other sets of specifications

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ICT minimum mandatory criteria
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Tool Comparing Other Systems
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Tool Comparing Product Performance
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Results of minimum criteria

• Database of environmental product data for each
  product type
• Product environmental data sourced from
• ECMA-370/IT ECO Declarations
• EPEAT database
• Product environmental performance compared
  against criteria in ECMA-370 and EPEAT
• Environmental Technical Specifications and Award
  Criteria developed in line with market
  performance
• Comparison against other sets of specifications

Buy Sustainable Quick Wins Computing Products
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Candidate 2008 Quick Wins Computing Products
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Imaging Products
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ICT Best Practice Criteria Market Share
ICT Best Practice Criteria Computing Products
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ICT Imaging Best Practice Criteria Market Share
Candidate ICT Best Practice Criteria Computing
Products
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Basic Cost Benefit Analysis

• Across product groups
• For each level of environmental performance
• Purchase price only (running costs not
  considered)
• In process of including running costs into
  analysis
• Purchase price included for base model (where
  possible)

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Basic Cost Benefit Analysis Computing
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Basic Cost Benefit Analysis Imaging
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Questions and Contacts
Dr Kay Williams Defra - Team Leader, sustainable
product standards and carbon footprinting
Kay.Williams_at_defra.gsi.gov.uk Tel [phone]
6451 Jonathan Wood Atuitive
Consultant Jonathan.wood_at_atuitive.com Tel 0207
193 8442 Mob [phone]